Use generic license web page rather than requiring release-specific license pages #65771

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1. ned-deily commented on May 24, 2014

   

   ned-deily

   on May 24, 2014

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   Currently the "license" command for the interactive interpreter falls back to attempting to download a release-specific license URL if LICENSE.txt is not found locally. This adds the requirement to the release process to create a release-specific license file for each release. However, as was implemented in bpo-19043, we now use a generic license page in the documentation that no longer needs to be updated for each release (http://www.python.org/psf/license/ -> https://docs.python.org/2/license.html). Suggest changing Lib/site.py to use the generic URL as the fallback, thus eliminating the need to create a redundant downloads license page for each release.

   For 2.7:
   diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
   --- a/Lib/site.py
   +++ b/Lib/site.py
   @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
        for supporting Python development.  See www.python.org for more information.""")
        here = os.path.dirname(os.__file__)
        __builtin__.license = _Printer(
   -        "license", "See http://www.python.org/%.3s/license.html" % sys.version,
   +        "license", "See http://www.python.org/psf/license/",
            ["LICENSE.txt", "LICENSE"],
            [os.path.join(here, os.pardir), here, os.curdir])
   
   For 3.x:
   diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
   --- a/Lib/site.py
   +++ b/Lib/site.py
   @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
            dirs.extend([os.path.join(here, os.pardir), here, os.curdir])
        builtins.license = _sitebuiltins._Printer(
            "license",
   -        "See http://www.python.org/download/releases/%.5s/license" % sys.version,
   +        "See http://www.python.org/psf/license/",
            files, dirs)

   For PEP-101:
   diff --git a/pep-0101.txt b/pep-0101.txt
   --- a/pep-0101.txt
   +++ b/pep-0101.txt
   @@ -487,8 +487,6 @@
   ___ Comment out the "This is a preview release" or the "This is a
   production release" paragraph as appropriate

   •  ___ Update the license in `download/releases/X.Y.Z/license`
     

   •  Note, you don't have to copy any release files into this directory;
      they only live on dinsdale in the ftp directory.
     
2. benjaminp commented on May 24, 2014

   

   benjaminp

   on May 24, 2014

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   Big +1
3. pitrou commented on May 25, 2014

   

   pitrou

   on May 25, 2014

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   Sounds like a pretty obvious improvement.
4. python-dev commented on May 31, 2014

   

   python-devmannequin

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   New changeset 605349858156 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7':
   Issue bpo-21572: Change license command to fallback to generic license URL.
   http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/605349858156

   New changeset 53fa2c9523d4 by Ned Deily in branch '3.4':
   Issue bpo-21572: Change license command to fallback to generic license URL.
   http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/53fa2c9523d4

   New changeset 075c7affc05c by Ned Deily in branch 'default':
   Issue bpo-21572: Change license command to fallback to generic license URL.
   http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/075c7affc05c
5. python-dev commented on May 31, 2014

   

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   New changeset 151ac5aee7e7 by Ned Deily in branch 'default':
   Issue bpo-21572: No longer need to create release-specific license page.
   http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/151ac5aee7e7
6. ned-deily

   closed this as completedon May 31, 2014
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   transferred this issue fromon Apr 10, 2022